The Court ruled that Congress had not really inadvertently turned over its tariff authority to the president when it passed IEEPA. The opinion itself is fractured and awkward. Three conservative justices—John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch—joined with the three liberal justices to strike down Trump’s IEEPA tariffs on narrow textual grounds. “Based on two words separated by 16 others in Section 1702(a)(1)(B) of IEEPA—‘regulate’ and ‘importation’—the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time. Those words cannot bear such weight,” the controlling opinion, written by Roberts, declares.